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Having discovered the wonders of this magnificent competition... I wish success to all participants in their future endeavours! I've wanted to participate in Eurovision now for a few years.. Never sure how :( Either as a singer or at least a songwriter... :) Maybe for France. I am a singer / guitarist / keyboardist / songwriter If anyone wishes to contact me to chat, discuss ESC, or propose some idea that would be helpful (I don't know how)... Questions? Comments? Concerns? (I'm sure you have at least [i]concerns[/i]!) >>[b]Email me![/b]<< valbonne[@]hotmail.com UPDATE: I'm so sorry that my MSN hasn't been working... If you wish to talk to me, please email if I don't respond to my MSN! :)...
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In response to Which country am I representing anyway?
In May 2010 I was sitting at a bar next to Jon Lilygreen. After a certain amount of beer, the Welshman, participating for Cyprus at the Eurovision that year, got pretty wasted. “Which country am I ...
Source: http://www.eurovisionfamily.tv/user/steefsteef/blog/?id=111902
I agree with Steef van Gorkum's blog post. http://www.eurovisionfamily.tv/user/steefsteef/blog/?id=111902
It's nice to have some regional representation, but it doesn't always have to depend on the person's origin. However, I would say the reason we find so many of those generic pop songs and such is because not all regional music and not all languages have the same appeal (unfortunately, I love diversity and I would not rank an Italian song above a German song simply because of how the language sounds, but some would, or vice versa). It used to be this way, and there were more than a few problems, if you ask me.
Also, if each country were to use regional flavours, it would add more interest to the entry in my opinion, but some might consider it overdone (France, I think, would be rather at a disadvantage with its stereotypical café music, while Germany might enter with Schläger and Italy with opera, and the UK with Brit-pop)... I would just recommend that the foreign entrants stay sober enough to clearly know who they're representing ;)
So, 43 countries in the running for Eurovision in Baku 2012, and I'm fired up! Good luck to all the artists; I wish them well for their efforts (although some may argue that certain entries are debatable).
It's nice to have some regional representation, but it doesn't always have to depend on the person's origin. However, I would say the reason we find so many of those generic pop songs and such is because not all regional music and not all languages have the same appeal (unfortunately, I love diversity and I would not rank an Italian song above a German song simply because of how the language sounds, but some would, or vice versa). It used to be this way, and there were more than a few problems, if you ask me.
Also, if each country were to use regional flavours, it would add more interest to the entry in my opinion, but some might consider it overdone (France, I think, would be rather at a disadvantage with its stereotypical café music, while Germany might enter with Schläger and Italy with opera, and the UK with Brit-pop)... I would just recommend that the foreign entrants stay sober enough to clearly know who they're representing ;)
So, 43 countries in the running for Eurovision in Baku 2012, and I'm fired up! Good luck to all the artists; I wish them well for their efforts (although some may argue that certain entries are debatable).
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